Welcome to our minds

Hello my name is Christi Aka "Mom". My daughter's name is Beth but she will post under the name Hatchi. I know I know why don't they just go by the names we gave them at birth but she is a spirit all her own and so she has named herself.

I thought for our first post I would introduce us and give a little background to this little project. I am a house wife and mother of three. We are a home schooling household as well. To me that last point means the most for my children have manors and thoughts that are their own and their life is not rushed.

We live in Oklahoma and really are just a normal family. * giggles.... snorts * .... * tryies to breath * ... we are so NOT what most call normal. We are in some ways and then in others we dance to our own tune. We love music, movies, books... we love to camp, be with friends and cook out. We are also HUGE gamers... the meaning usually refers to online players but we also attach the board and card varieties to it as well. We are a family unit and we extend that net to include our friends who we call "adopted" family members and as with all families sometimes those "adopted" ones are closer to you then the blood ones.

So now onto our little porject......

We hate the heat. Don't get me wrong we like being outdoors in the summer but not when you can fry an egg on the sidewalk. Why did I just tell you that? Oh it was to make us hiding in the cool house a little less lazy sounding. We actually started reading more then noraml amounts last summer but it was this summer that we noticed it had really become a huge addiction. When I noticed Beth's allowance was being spent on stacks of books and I was not buying new shoes for myself but books instead.... Yup we had a new addiction in the house and it was READING *Gasp*. Now I have to say it isn't a bad one to have, but one that had to be taken control of. She and I have had to watch out for each other with this addiction. Make sure we were sleeping atleast some of the night and not snuggled in bed lit by a soft LED spotlight. Yes we have both looked up and said "wow the sun already?".

A few days ago I was looking for a new series for me to read that was a little more adult and less tween. Yes for the most part this Blog will be made of reviews from her and I but SOME will be on books that I have on the not for Beth shelf. One day in the all too near future she will be free to go back in the archives and add her review to what I have written on one of these books but not untill she is of an age I feel she can handle the content. Ooooo if you couldn't feel the mommy voice in that then you need to call your mom more. * laughs*
Where was I? Oh the book search. I was looking way too intently at my computer screen and she came up behind me and asked what I was looken for. When I told her that I was trying to google find a "GOOD" review site to help me find something I wanted to sink my mind into and that I just wasn't finding one. I sometimes found some help with the buyers comments on sites but they still were to me blanket statements, " i loved this book" and " a must read". BAH! That was when we talked about what we wanted in a review and how we should just make our own. We shrugged and I went back to my seach.

Until this morning. My hubbies 37th bday in fact. I woke up from a dream where I saw the title of our Blog and how it would work.

That's it. Here we are, me writting what you are reading. The first of many enteries in this Journey of infinite words. One Mother, One Daughter and You.